it was indicated that a particular doctor and acupuncturist from the Qin dynasty; Dr Cuie Wenze lived over 300years
300 years? wow it sounds a number very hard to achieve, especially because there were no modern medicine back them.
When it comes to our age limit, the ultimate solution would be to adopt synthetic forms for our future self, or like you mentioned "Cybernetic Immortality".
This would not only give us close to indestructible bodies, but also a way of achieving immortally by having infinite backups.
The possibility of prolonging our lives in virtual worlds also deserves some consideration.
I recommend you to watch 2 things:
- the San Junipero episode of Black Mirror
- A little known movie called "The Man from Earth". One of the best dialogue driven movies I have seen.
Cheers @samminator
Exactly. For me, Cybernetic immorality is surer than tweaking some genetic codes which you can't even predict the outcome.
Exactly. Our consciousness can be transferred to machines, but that would be when we might have achieved singularity.
I should go get these movies you recommended.
Thanks for dropping by
@dedicatedguy @samminator I just wrote a bit of a comment on this idea but I have an honest question of if we can even consider cybernetic immortality..."humane" if thats the right way to put it.
Once we leave our bodies to enter a virtual system how do you guys figure we would still retain our humanity. Something as simple as fear plays into everyday decisions and emotions, unless we recreate artificial systems to interpret a fear response, leading to chemical release, and so on and so forth, it'll be a hollowing process.
TLDR; My best bet is we live semi-dead in metabolic chambers with augmented reality rigs. Still alive and flesh-bound, but with a veryyyyyyy extended lifespan.
Remember, in this case you're referring to, it is our consciousness that enters into the virtual system. And our humanity is embedded in our consciousness. So I believe we would fully (or partly; as it were) retain our humanity.
But thats such a vague answer to me. We really don't understand consciousness at all, how it manifests and to what degree it can be recreated.
The case itself is obviously hypothetical and insinuates there is some master key to consciousness that will allow us to recreate memories, hormonal response, and genuine emotion. There is just no evidence this is even possible, I've heard about digitizing mice and worm brains to put in robots, but none of those experiments take into accounts the "consciousness" of the mouse.
There are advances that have been made to incorporate common sense into machines. I suggest you read about the "The project Alexandria". Now, if this is possible, I believe it would be possible; someday; to recreate consciousness in machines.
Also, I suggest you read the book “Ascribing mental qualities to machines” by John McCarthy